Ivan Blidar
Ivan Blidar, a male who claims to identify as a woman and a gay man, was convicted at Sefton Magistrates Court in January 2025 of voyeurism offences. Blidar was bailed pending sentence in March 2025.
Blidar, aged 37 and a plumber based in Chingford, North London, was in Liverpool ahead of catching a flight to Estonia in August 2022. In the early hours of the morning, a woman using the toilet in McDonalds looked up to see Blidar spying on her over the cubicle. When arrested he claimed that there was a queue for the men’s toilets and this was why he had entered the female toilets – this was disproved by the restaurant CCTV which showed Blidar initially heading towards the men’s toilet, but he does not push the door or go in. He then claimed via a Russian interpreter that he understood that people with non-traditional sexual orientations had a choice about which toilet to use. When it was put to him that his motivation was sexual, he said ‘I identify as a woman. I am gay and I think I could choose which toilet I use. In London, in the pubs, it’s usual’. Despite his English supposedly being so bad that he needed a translator, he also then claimed he had heard the woman and her friend discussing taking cocaine and this was the reason for him looking over the cubicle.
Unsurprisingly, the court did not find his account credible – including his attempt to denigrate the victim as taking drugs and claiming to be gay to deny his actions were sexually motivated. The judge said of Blidar that ‘his evidence on this issue was often vague and inconsistent. What the CCTV shows is that he is waiting for female toilet to be clear so that he can go into the cubicles without anybody being aware of what he is doing. I am sure that was for sexual gratification.’
See here for other examples of trans-identified males who have offended in female spaces and here for trans-identified males such as Lennon/Katie Dolatowski, Ian Bullock and Kurtis Mawson who have recently committed sexual assaults/voyeurism offences in public toilets while claiming to be ‘women’. Other trans-identified males who have denigrated their victim are collated here, and those who claimed not to be able to speak English are collated here.
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Media reports
Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14332871/Gay-man-identifies-woman-toilets-spying.html archive